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Adobe AIR and Flex 3 betas released
Both Adobe Integrated Runtime (formally known as Apollo) and Flex 3 had their Beta's released today, and the company is confident they will have an impact on software universe. Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester analyst says that these two programs "will finally allow developers to marry the ubiquity and low maintenance costs of Web apps with the user engagement and productivity of client-server apps." The AIR SDK and some other goodies can be downloaded here. And there's also a contest they're running, a nerd-off if you will, in which the best developed applications can win prizes. So get on it. Word on the street is that if you build an application that fights terrorism you're a shoe-in to win.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
